Principles of the Law of Equity and Trusts in Ireland (2nd Ed) provides a clear, authoritative and contemporary account of equity and trusts as they operate in Irish law. Combining rigorous doctrinal analysis with historical context, leading authorities and carefully selected judicial quotations, this substantially revised second edition explains both the enduring principles of the subject and their application to modern legal problems.

Fully updated to August 2026, the book incorporates important developments in Irish legislation, regulation and case law, while drawing on English and wider common law authority where it illuminates unresolved questions. Expanded coverage includes modern injunctions, proprietary estoppel after Guest v Guest, electronic transactions, tracing through mixed funds, cross-border asset movement, digital assets, pension and investment structures, family-home trusts, charity governance, statutory illegality and responsible artificial intelligence in trust administration. Secret trusts and deathbed gifts are reconsidered in light of wills reform, evidential risk and digital forms of dominion.

A major feature of this edition is the wholly new chapter on trusts, insolvency and asset segregation. It brings together express, resulting and constructive trusts with Irish bankruptcy and corporate insolvency, regulated client assets, safeguarded funds, pensions, digital custody and the limits of proprietary protection.

Contents:

Chapter One : History and Development of Equity

Chapter Two: The Maxims of Equity

Chapter Three: Injunctions

Chapter Four: Specific Performance

Chapter Five: Rectification

Chapter Six: Rescission

Chapter Seven: Proprietary Estoppel

Chapter Eight: Tracing

Chapter Nine: History and Development of the Trust

Chapter Ten: Creating a Fixed Trust

Chapter Eleven: Donatio Mortis Causa: Deathbed Gifts

Chapter Twelve: Secret Trusts

Chapter Thirteen: Resulting Trusts

Chapter Fourteen: Constructive Trusts

Chapter Fifteen: Trusts, Insolvency and Asset Segregation

Chapter Sixteen: Trusts in the Family Home

Chapter Seventeen: Purpose Trusts

Chapter Eighteen: Charitable Trusts

Chapter Nineteen: Void and Voidable Trusts

Chapter Twenty: Administration of Trus